Eggert Pétursson
Flora Islandica
Text by Ágúst H. Bjarnason
A vital staging-post on Eggert Péturson's journey from his early bookwork’s with pressed flowers and photographs of plants to his paintings is a collection of 271 illustrations made for the field guide Icelandic Flora with Colour Illustrations, published in 1983. In this volume, Pétursson's magnificent drawings are published for the first time in their full size A3, 420 x 297 mm, arranged by taxonomic order. Each illustration is accompanied by a botanical description from the original text. The book is published in 500 individually numbered copies, signed by Eggert Pétursson.
FÍT Prize for the best book design 2009. Nomination for best book design at ADC*E in Barcelona 2009.
420 x 297 mm
560 pages
271 gouache drawings
500 signed and individually numbered copies
Cross wood case, linen wrapped
January 2009
